Lot 537
‡CONRAD HEIGHTON LEIGH (1883-1958)
CHARGE OF SCOTS GREYS AND HIGHLANDERS AT ST. QUENTIN
Signed, inscribed with title on the stretcher, oil on canvas
49.5 x 59.5cm.
* This dramatic composition derives much of its content from Richard Caton Woodville's illustration published in H W Wilson's `The Great War` (1916). The subject is said to depict a stirrup-charge in August 1914 but there is liberal use of artistic licence: the soldiers are shown wearing spats and hose (reserved solely for parade order); the grey horses, judged to be too distinctive, had all been dyed chestnut; and no running man could keep abreast of a galloping horse
